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111Straight decker — A straight decker is a ship built with its pilothouse forward and engines aft to provide continuous hold between. This design originated to meet the bulk freight demands on Great Lakes routes.The term Straight Decker is also commonly used upon… …
112Aerial application — Polish M 18 Dromader waterbomber used in Western Australia …
113Real estate bubble — This article is about the general phenomenon of housing bubbles. For housing bubbles in various countries, see below. A real estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs… …
114Charleston class amphibious cargo ship — USS Charleston (LKA 113) in 1988 Class overview Builders: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. Built …
115Alternative theories regarding Hurricane Katrina — Following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, various conjectures were put forward suggesting that Katrina was not an ordinary natural event, but was instead influenced by human behavior or supernatural forces. Assertions of the… …
116Miracle on the Han River — For the historical context of this phrase, see Economy of South Korea. The South Korean economy grew almost non stop from near zero to over a trillion dollars in less than half a century …
117Turkish Aerospace Industries — Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), the center of technology in design, development, manufacturing, integration of aerospace systems, modernization and after sales support in Turkey, was established under… …
118Tendency of the rate of profit to fall — The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a hypothesis in economics and political economy, most famously expounded by Karl Marx in chapter 13 of Das Kapital Vol. 3. It was generally accepted in the 19th century. Economists as diverse… …
119Rogers-Post Site — The Rogers Post Site, located on the North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska, is the location of a plane crash that killed humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post on 15 August 1935 during an aerial tour of Alaska. It is about 13 miles (21 km) …
120HMS Polyphemus (1881) — The third HMS Polyphemus was a Royal Navy torpedo ram, serving from 1881 until 1903. A shallow draft, fast, low profile vessel, she was designed to penetrate enemy harbours at speed and sink anchored ships. [cite book|title=War at Sea in the… …
